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Hammond, Top Gear return tonight

January 28, 2007

Just a few months after his horrific 280mph crash in a rocket-powered dragster, Top Gear’s Richard “The Hamster” Hammond is returning to the airwaves tonight on the delayed but much-anticipated 9th season (or “series” as the British call it, since they kind of do two series per year) of Top Gear. Shortly after the crash, it was wondered if Hammond would even live…and if he did, doctors were sure it would take him six months of rehab just to do something like walk once again. But five weeks after the crash and a miraculous recovery, Hammond was out of the hospital. Now, he’s ready to talk about the crash on the show — and BBC will reportedly be broadcasting footage of the crash, at Hammond’s insistence. Gotta admire that — if you’re going to go up in a big ball of flames in front of a camera, you better damn well show it to people. (Right, Chris?)

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